Well, as Thalmarkin can tell you, getting refugees isn't always a good thing. Especially not when they arrive en bloc and start trouble for no apparent reason.
Yeah. Damn foreigners
The judge got protested out of office, the Grand Marshal shunned, and the rightful King called a Tyrant!
In Fissoa on the other hand, immigrants have always been accepted with open arms. First myself, when I came from Myern, and later the Giaskians.